Turtle Fort!!

MBauer17 · Feb 2019

My next project will be this turtle fort I found in World of Warcraft: Art of Cataclysm concept book created by Mark Gibbons . My weakness is maintaining that "chunkiness" that is signature of Warcraft's style. Will keep updating the tread as I go along. Thank you for looking!

Concept:

High poly progress :

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duplicateaccount · Feb 2019

I really like this idea. The only major suggestion I have is changing the "Legs". Something about the bone like appearance has me a little too focused. Have you tried making them all spikes the one right above them sticking out towards us to see whats that like?

Overall, I love the idea

MBauer17 · Feb 2019

@3DKlassen Yeah I totally agree.I was trying to make them "chunky" but now they're a little too... apparent and not quite a part of the entire piece. I can definitely take a STAB at it with your idea (WINK)

MBauer17 · Feb 2019

The project has been pretty slow on account of I'm in the middle of a big cross-country move. I lobotomized a rope brush I found on ZbrushCentral forums to create the rope stitches and started to sculpt the wrinkles. It is still quite rough but I have the major stuff down for the most part. In any case, if anyone wants the stitches brush, you can grab it here on my gumroad for free-izzle rizzle dizzle.

I may take a break from working on the wrinkles and go and work on the spikes for the next few days because man I'm burnt out on wrinkles.

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bigdeku · Feb 2019

Looks really good, thank you so much for sharing your rope brush with the community, although they do look VERY clean at the moment compared to the rest of the sculpt but I'm sure that's something that you're working on. Also, I can't believe that is real wow concept art. I'm so used to seeing overly polished concept art everywhere that it really surprised, I thought you initially meant that you had copied it from the book, by its real thing! haha

Looking at it now the line work and stylization of reminds of Trent Kauniga's stuff, but I'm not sure he was still at Blizzard at that time. But might be worth checking out and also possible if you contact him he'd be able to tell you who did it as he's very approachable.

MBauer17 · Feb 2019

Hey cool @bigdeku ! I'll get right on it and contact him. Thanks for the lead !

Edit: Found him! The concept artist is Mark Gibbons! https://mgartworks.myportfolio.com/blizzard-entertainment

Nuclear Angel · Feb 2019

Hey @MBauer17
I feel the scales are of in your sculpt. The ladder should be much smaller. I would recommend that you put in a mannequin as a scale reference. Other than checking the proportions of the piece I think you got a nice start!

MBauer17 · Mar 2019

been really busy packing for a move so i only managed to have a little bit of time to make this little windchime prop to add to the scene

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MBauer17 · Mar 2019

Finally settled in here in Seattle after driving from OC, then flying back and packing up more stuff, and then flying back up to Seattle. Feels good to get back into business.

Here is the baked low poly so far. Tweaking will be done, and some more stuff will be added to hide the underside of the canvas, but for now, I'm happy with the bakes thus far.

MBauer17 · Mar 2019

A burlap curtain "base" that I will use for my turtle fort's decor. Base high poly in Marvelous Designer, low poly/clean up in Maya, and texture done in Zbrush as a side excuse to figure out the nanomesh tool. Will rip this sucker to shreds with alphas.

This morning I knew 0% about Zbrush's nanomesh tool. It's 11:15 PM and now I know 1% about Zbrush's nanomesh tool.

MBauer17 · Mar 2019

Working on color scheme now. I removed the cloth at the moment. There's a lot I'd like to go back and fix in regards to it. Color is the hardest thing for me to nail down, especially finding a scheme that works.

I really want to try to go for a desert wasteland tribe feeling with this fort hut.

Please feel free to throw out any thoughts on it so far. Thanks!

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MBauer17 · Apr 2019

Built a couple of assets and did a very quick paint over trying to nail down the scene I plan on building around my turtle fort

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MBauer17 · Apr 2019

Small props built this weekend so far:

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MBauer17 · Apr 2019

Scene block out

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MBauer17 · Apr 2019

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Further blocking out the scene

MBauer17 · Apr 2019

Threw out a lot of the original scene, tightening up the focus of it all. Going to add a lot more foliage and add a fire (no idea how I'm going to approach the fire)